Superficially this looks about right to close the output gap if it is spent this year .

Governments and the private sector in this subregion will be supported by UNIDO to help business close the performance gap with their international competitors.

The key is to close the confidence gap and pave the way for meaningful dialogue.

We believe that the time has come to close the gap between words and reality.

It is not likely that China (or others) will soon close that gap with the US.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries emerging from conflicts will close an institutional gap.

This huge gap spurs migration.

The gap is due mainly to persistent challenges in deploying the full complement of civilian police officers (only 460 out of a mandated 815), but efforts to close the gap continue.

That strategy supported technology transfer, helping to close the knowledge gap and rapidly improving the quality of manufactured goods.

The Global Renewable Energy Fund of Funds should help close the financing gap for developing renewable energy markets and services worldwide.

So it's this here, this little gap that you have to close, as Jeffrey Moore calls it, Crossing the Chasm because, you see, the early majority will not try something until someone else has tried it first.

But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

Current projections showed that there was an urgent need to close in 2005 a multi million dollar gap between income and expenditure.

Experience shows that it is possible to close the gap between relief and development and transform disasters into opportunities for sustainable development.

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Then the gap is divided by the shrink factor again, the list is sorted with this new gap, and the process repeats until the gap is 1.

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

The report indicated that there is a significant disparity in availability of health care services and personnel between urban and rural areas (report, pg. 79). What measures have been taken to close this gap?

Yet if we look closer this gap becomes illusory.

Of course, a government can also close a budget gap by raising taxes, but any sudden shift can significantly magnify the distortions that taxes cause.

We have noted that the outcome document of this conference calls for a greater role for the African Development Bank, to enable it, inter alia, to play a key part in efforts to close the infrastructure gap.

And despite this, victory is close,

The gap between Europe s security needs and its military capacities is widening, and most European leaders lack the will to do what is necessary to close it.

They could close Japan s salary gender gap wider than in any OECD country except South Korea in part by establishing rules that reward performance rather than seniority.

So lagging countries growth potential is determined by their ability to close the gap with the technology frontier not by how rapidly the frontier itself is advancing.

These increases have helped close the so called financial gap between the estimated resources needed and the estimated resources available for funding an expanded, comprehensive AIDS response.

Some bloggers try to create a bridge to fill this information gap.

Closing this gap requires that educators and employers work together more closely.

This emerging values gap is not an insurmountable obstacle to geostrategic rapprochement.

The obstacles facing women in reducing this gap are many and varied

The first is that the world suffers from a shortage of aggregate demand relative to supply the second is that monetary and fiscal stimulus will close the gap.

Education is the bedrock for progress and educated women will empower Africa, so the focus now must be on those countries that are failing to close the gap.

Efforts to close this gap have so far been insufficient in scale and scope, but a plan of action now exists, developed in recent months by United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki moon s Advisory Group on Energy and Climate Change (AGECC).

His delegation was pleased that the Special Rapporteur recognized that Canada had taken up the challenge to close that gap (E CN.4 2005 88 Add.3, p. 2).

There's no gap between rich and poor any longer. This is a myth.

But this prediction is close to a tautology.

This situation is now close to being reversed.

Remarkably, my research shows that manufacturing industries tend to close the gap with the technology frontier at the rate of about 3 per year regardless of policies, institutions, or geography.

In both of these areas, Roma fall so far behind their fellow citizens that targeted measures to close the gap should be an integral part of the Europe 2020 plan.

However, in 2008, a study of young people and self harm saw the gender gap close, with 32 of young females, and 22 of young males admitting to self harm.

A narrowing gap in funding costs could just mean that financial markets recognize this.

While this situation is not unique to Pakistan, this is no reason not to make serious efforts to reduce this gap.

America s colossal fiscal gap readily calculated using projections by the Congressional Budget Office is close to 1,400 of GDP and dwarfs US official debt, which totals 9 trillion (60 of GDP).